Politics
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has insisted that the forthcoming Local Government Election scheduled for 5th October will be held. Fubara said there was an encumbrance known to law to stop the conduct of the…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Kingsley Wali, who recently quit partisan politics, speaks about the protracted Rivers State political impasse and the role of the judiciary, among other salient national issues, in this interview with…
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the forthcoming November 16 gubernatorial election in Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi, at the weekend, lashed out at Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa over his appointment of 344 aides. According to Ajayi, the…
The Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress have exchanged words over the recent political appointments made by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa. The state governor, on Friday, through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Ebenezer Adeniyan,…
The Peoples Democratic Party has labelled a former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, as a failed and insignificant politician. Kwankwaso, the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, had stated that the PDP is no longer relevant in…
The Media Director of the Edo All Progressives Congress Campaign Council, Kassim Afegbua, has faulted the claim by Governor Godwin Obaseki that he fell out with a former governor of the state, Adams Oshiomhole, over the state burial given to…
A former Akwa Ibom North West Senator, Chris Ekpenyong, has said that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, does not have the oxygen to destabilise the Peoples Democratic Party. Ekpenyong said Wike is just taking advantage of…
Less than two weeks before the governorship election in Edo State, four aides to the State Governor, Godwin Obaseki have resigned their appointments. DAILY POST reports that the former Senior Special Assistants, SSAs, to the Governor also resigned from the…
The All Progressives Congress in Anambra State has withdrawn from the upcoming local government elections, scheduled for 28th September 2024, citing concerns over irregularities. The party announced this on Saturday, adding that it had decided to take legal action, challenging…
The African Action Congress (AAC) has called for the immediate withdrawal of what it described as arbitrary charges imposed on candidates participating in the upcoming Local Government Area (LGA) elections in Benue State, scheduled for October 5, 2024. According to…
The national leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has expressed confidence of winning the 2027 presidential election. Kwankwaso, who was the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, made the outburst on Saturday when he inaugurated…
Claim: In an interview with selected journalists on the sidelines of the 2024 NutriVision Dialogue in Abuja, Bill Gates claimed that Nigeria has the second-highest rate of food insecurity in the world and that climate change has been accelerating the…
Just two weeks to the main elections on September 21, the Imo State All Progressives Congress, APC, is under tension as candidates and other members of the party are eagerly awaiting for the release of results of the party primary…
A faction of the People’s Democratic Party in Kano State has rejected the ward congresses conducted in the state on Saturday (today). The Sadiq Aminu Wali faction of the PDP in a statement by its Chieftain, Muhaminnah Lamido, distanced itself…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said the recent hike in the price of petrol will not affect the conduct of the Edo governorship election. Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, said this while fielding…
A member of the House of Representatives, representing Ideato North South Federal Constituency, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere (PDP, Imo) has said that no congress of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was held in Rivers State at the weekend. Ugochinyere said, rather…
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